Communication,

What's on!

Our founding team exists of an event management and social media professional, two professional classical musicians (cello & violin) and a film festival fanatic. You can say we have bundled quite some meeting and events experience. This is where our personal frustrations and desires materialized into a concept: What’s On?”

What’s On?” real-time program information

Free Sample of The Tweeting Meeting!

Download this free sample of The Tweeting Meeting and decide if you want to get your copy of this book in paper or PDF. The Tweeting Meeting is about Social Media and Networks for Meetings and events. 14 Authors worked together to create a comprehensive work with a pure focus on meeting and events.

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Synthetron is supporting a Mega Event in Belgium

MSI member Synthetron is supporting mega event : online participatory citizens project in Belgium on November 11 2011.

Belgian citizens subscription is open now!!

This week there is a very interesting experiment in participatory democracy in Belgium: G1000: Citizens organise on 11/11/2011 a citizens summit: 1000 randomly chosen citizens from the 3 language communities, will be gathered to discuss with each other at 100 tables of 10 persons.

Culturally diverse attendance and learning in conferences

After reading Vanneste's wonderful book, Meeting Architecture: a manifesto, I have been wondering whether the industry architects design the content of a conference keeping the multicultural audience in mind. To be more specific, I wonder what and when any conceptual tools are used to achieve the conference's learning objectives.

Helping Your Audience On The Hero’s Journey by Midcourse Corrections

Let’s take a trip back to your junior high days. If you’re like me, immediately your palms begin to sweat. Your throat tightens. Your heart starts racing and your mouth gets dry as you remember those trying teen years. Imagine that today is that day! It’s the big day when you have to deliver your first speech. Your mind is racing. “Will I remember everything to say? Did I wear the right clothes? Will they laugh at me? Will they boo me?” You say to yourself, “Remember what Ms. Smith said. View your audience in their underwear and you won’t be as nervous.”

Creating Engaging Meetings Using Visual Language by Midcourse Corrections

We know people get a lot more accomplished when they can collaborate and work together.

Yet most conferences make attendees sit passively in sessions. Or they are forced to connect in a speed networking session. Rarely do we tap into the brain wealth of attendees and allow them to collaborate.

Likewise, often conference attendees retreat into intolerant positions of non-listening. In today’s world of complex challenges, we long for over simplistic explanations that will solve our problems.

Swarmworks. Use the wisdom of crowds

SwarmWorks utilises the concept of swarm intelligence. What initially may sound abstract is in fact rather elegantly easy and effective. Take mother nature as role model and imagine a swarm of birds or fish: Their forms of organisation don’t need a central controlling body but can still outsmart more powerful opponents

 

Entertainment New & successful Swarm intelligence gets you further:

Puppeteer as conference summariser: learning with humour...

Meeting / conference summary by puppets.. 
The performance consists of a satirical act, cut out specifically for the activity at hand. This can be a party, a congres, a company reunion, or … whatever might be the occasion. The Puppet Theatre is available in three languages (Dutch, French and English, occasionally mixed together). Essential is a good briefing about the event and the subjects through e-mail.
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